Smash McDonalds
Gary A | 09.05.2002 00:00
We as anarchists, socialist, greens who oppose poverty, Globalisation and economic inequality need to start using direct action.
We need to show to the world that we are serious. We need to send a message to the corporations that we are not willing to accept their persecution of workers and destruction of the environment. Marching down the streets shouting 'RESIST, REVOLT,' achieves very little. It is the direct which is the most affective form of protest. 1 protester who uses direct action is as affect as 10 who only shout, wave banners and clap Tony Benn's speeches.
I do not believe we should attack people. Violence against our fellow human beings is the work of the police and we should not act like those pigs. I do not believe we should attack residential property. We should attack the commercial property of McDonalds, GAP, ESSO, NIKE, Sainsbury, HSBC etc. We should smash their windows, destroy their cash machines and shelves. Their stock should then given to the homeless. We should organize in groups of 100s or possibly 1000s go down to the high-street stores and demolish all that corporate-infected rubbish.
It is the smashing of the McDonalds in MayDay 2000 which scared the establishment in the UK. Unfortunately since then there has been little direct action against the corporations. The direct action I propose will shake the system, send a message to Blair that people are fed up and make the corporations feel uneasy.
We need to show to the world that we are serious. We need to send a message to the corporations that we are not willing to accept their persecution of workers and destruction of the environment. Marching down the streets shouting 'RESIST, REVOLT,' achieves very little. It is the direct which is the most affective form of protest. 1 protester who uses direct action is as affect as 10 who only shout, wave banners and clap Tony Benn's speeches.
I do not believe we should attack people. Violence against our fellow human beings is the work of the police and we should not act like those pigs. I do not believe we should attack residential property. We should attack the commercial property of McDonalds, GAP, ESSO, NIKE, Sainsbury, HSBC etc. We should smash their windows, destroy their cash machines and shelves. Their stock should then given to the homeless. We should organize in groups of 100s or possibly 1000s go down to the high-street stores and demolish all that corporate-infected rubbish.
It is the smashing of the McDonalds in MayDay 2000 which scared the establishment in the UK. Unfortunately since then there has been little direct action against the corporations. The direct action I propose will shake the system, send a message to Blair that people are fed up and make the corporations feel uneasy.
Gary A
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09.05.2002 07:15
But breaking windows and other property are crimes that
can lead to jail sentences. We can smash mac donalds without having our friends and fellow actists beaten up by state thugs and then locked up in newgate .
check out what Mac Libel are doing they are definately giving it to Mac D's up the arse and as far as I know no one is getting nicked. Mac Donalds profits have slumped.
Some bunch of dickhead advertising awards went to the mac Libel campaign, which is more effective than multi million dollar corporate run advertising, sign up to the maiiling list, get involved in some peacefull actions. less stress
and it works .....
here's the latest from Mac Libel, some right on people behind
this little jockey !!!!!
all the best and don't get nicked !!!
Subject:
[McLibel] [presscutting] The quixotic fight against drive-throughs
Date:
Tue, 7 May 2002 18:15:01 +0200 (CEST)
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30/04/02
p r e s s c u t t i n g by John Barber
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The Globe and Mail
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Toronto, CANADA
The quixotic fight against drive-throughs
Jose Bove may be going to jail, sentenced for the landmark
crime of bulldozing a McDonald's restaurant in southern France,
but the company's worries are far from over. Now it has the
Humewood Neighbourhood Committee to reckon with.
Its members are the furthest thing from criminals, but they
are just as fanatical as Mr. Bove -- and there are a lot more of
them.
Their quixotic campaign to prevent McDonald's from building a
drive-through restaurant on the north side of St. Clair Avenue,
just west of Christie Street, has rung bells across the city.
Their protests have played on the front pages and City Hall
is storming to their rescue. But most of the bells are ringing in
the neighbourhood itself.
"It has really galvanized the community," said Stephen
Scharper, one of the Humewooders who descended on City Hall
yesterday to demand a halt to the proliferation of drive-throughs
in the inner city. "This has been a real community-building
moment for us."
They came up with a nifty slogan spontaneously at a public
meeting ("We're a live-in community, not a drive-thru") and have
posted a Web site (
McDonald's couldn't buy for any amount of money.
The protest has also exposed a loophole in planning
regulations that allowed drive-throughs throughout the inner city
"as of right." The former city of Toronto never thought to
regulate the phenomenon.
"This is the suburbanization of downtown," local city
councillor Joe Mihevc complained. He has promised "to fight it
tooth and nail."
The former suburban municipalities have scads of
drive-throughs, of course. The latest trend is for complex setups
that weave customers through tricky interchanges to a choice of
as many as three different restaurants.
But city officials appear to have decided against their usual
practice of "harmonizing" the rules by forcing downtowners to
accept the suburban standards.
A new planning report agrees with many of the Humewooders'
complaints that drive-throughs endanger pedestrians, create
traffic congestion and destroy traditional streetscapes.
Earlier this year, the city passed an interim control bylaw
to prevent the creation of any more drive-through windows until
it has decided how to regulate them properly.
Perhaps learning from its experience dealing with pioneer
burger-haters, McDonald's is fighting back vigorously, first by
challenging the bylaw in court.
Seasoned observers expect it will win: You can pre-empt
development with an interim control bylaw, they say, but you
can't derail it.
Even if the Humewooders lose their own battle, however, they
will have heroically blackened the eye of the burger clown and
saved dozens of other inner-city neighbourhoods from the same
fate.
Rhona Swarbrick of the Toronto Pedestrian Committee doesn't
make as much noise, and she never gets any press, but she is
always there -- and making a difference -- whenever anybody tries
to improve life on the sidewalks of the city.
She was there yesterday, too, not only to support the
Humewood committee but also to introduce her committee's landmark
Toronto Pedestrian Charter to City Hall.
Ms. Swarbrick and Janice Etter, two Etobicokans, spent a year
researching and consulting before they drew up this inspiring
one-page document, a kind of Bill of Rights for walkers, that
city council will be asked to adopt at its next meeting.
The charter "is a powerful, well-organized, pace-setting
document," according to Barry Wellar of the University of Ottawa,
an expert in the field. Prof. Wellar added that "it could become
regarded as the model statement for other cities that are trying
to become more livable, sustainable urban regions."
Adopting the pedestrian charter won't turn a car-mad city
around tomorrow, but it should help restore official resolve
after the amalgamation disaster.
"We are all pedestrians," Ms. Swarbrick said, adding that
suburban groups angry at needless deaths on high-speed arterials
are "snapping up" her charter.
As usual, it is ordinary citizen volunteers who are making
the difference.
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09.05.2002 07:44
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You wish...
09.05.2002 15:10
You wish ! Breaking windows will not bring down capitalism... (unless you smash them all at the same time and hope they all go bankrupt through glass costs)
I makes you feel like you are of importance, but you just piss of the licencees, and the one at the top laugh when you give them the opportunity to class all protest as "vandalism", that most people are afraid of.
organised anarchists ??